![]() ![]() During the arduous sea voyage, she saves the life of an English doctor bound for Ethiopia, Thomas Stone, who becomes a key player in her destiny when they meet up again at Missing Hospital in Addis Ababa. Sister Mary Joseph Praise, a devout young nun, leaves the south Indian state of Kerala in 1947 for a missionary post in Yemen. Lauded for his sensitive memoir (My Own Country) about his time as a doctor in eastern Tennessee at the onset of the AIDS epidemic in the '80s, Verghese turns his formidable talents to fiction, mining his own life and experiences in a magnificent, sweeping novel that moves from India to Ethiopia to an inner-city hospital in New York City over decades and generations. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles-and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined. Orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Please call your local branch to reserve this title for your club. ![]()
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5/31/2023 0 Comments Book the lincoln highway![]() ![]() Towles' third novel is even more entertaining than his much-acclaimed A Gentleman in Moscow (2016). ![]() Amor Towles is that rare combination of writer and storyteller. Read moreįinely observed and beautifully written. They have a very different plan for Emmett's future, one that will take the four of them on a fateful journey in the opposite direction - to New York City.īursting with life, charm, richly imagined settings and unforgettable characters, The Lincoln Highway is an extraordinary journey through 1950s America from the pen of a master storyteller. With his mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett plans to pick up his eight-year-old brother Billy and head to California to start a new life.īut when the warden drives away, Emmett discovers that two friends from the work farm have stowed away in the trunk of the warden's car. ![]() In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. Two brothers venture across 1950s America to New York in the absorbing new novel by the author of the bestselling A Gentleman in Moscow. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments No Mercy by Lucian Bane![]() ![]() ![]() This book starts with some really damn awkward phrasing like. I'm laying in bed its midnight and I'm almost done and I get to the last page and sit straight up in bed and yell "motherf**ker"! I had to read the last 2 pages 3 times to make sure what I was reading was correct and each time I finished motherf**ker was my only reaction. Oh and OMG the ending let me just share with you my reading experience for the last 2 pages. ![]() So if you are ready for a raw, gritty, emotional book that will suck you in from the jump then you really need to read Mercy you will NOT be disappointed. Trust me I had my popcorn ready when I saw the very first teaser and BOOM I needed it!! Mercy A Dark Erotica will KEEP you on the edge of your seat right from the first page. Their paths cross when Mercy finds a file on Sade that her dead father was keeping. Mercy has a wanna save the world and the troubled people in it type of personality with her own tote of physical and emotional problems. ![]() Sade is the sadomasochist tattoo artist who has his own world of issues. I laughed, I cried, I had some WTF moments but most of all I felt EVERYTHING the characters were going through. Mercy: A Dark Erotica had me feeling so many damn emotions til it just wasn't funny. If you've seen my reviews you know that I use A LOT of gifs to convey my thoughts on a book. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Winter rose patricia a mckillip![]() And as autumn gold fades, Rois is consumed with Corbet Lynn, obsessed with his secret past - until, across the frozed countryside and in flight from her own imagination, truth and dreams become inseparable. In her restless dreams, mixed with the heady warmth of harvest wine, she hears him beckon. In Corbet's pale green eyes, Rois senses a desperate longing. Rich and Strange(1994) The Book of Atrix Wolfe (1995) Winter Rose (1996) Song for. She is as hopelessly unbridled - and unsuited for marriage - as her betrothed sister Laurel is domestic. In the woods that border Lynn Hall, free-spirited Rois Melior roams wild and barefooted in search of healing herbs. ![]() È stato nominato per il Premio Nebula nel 1996 e nel 1997 per il Locus Award, come miglior romanzo Fantasy1, ed è stato finalista nel 1997 per il Premio Mythopoeic Fantasy Award for Adult Literature2. But when Corbet Lynn came to rebuild his family estate, memories of his grandfather's curse were rekindled by young and old - and rumours filled the heavy air of summer. Winter Rose è un romanzo fantasy del 1996 scritto da Patricia A. To others, it was a winter's tale spun by firelight on cold, dark nights. Some said the dying words of Nial Lynn, murdered by his own son, were a wicked curse. ![]() ![]() Sorrow and trouble and bitterness will bound you and yours and the children of yours. ![]() 5/31/2023 0 Comments Judge dredd case files 39![]() ![]() This volume is not really meant to be read in the one sitting or for an extended period. It only starts to drag if you try to read too much of it at once. One of the turkeys becomes self-aware enough to not want that causing trouble for the Judges. The story I most enjoyed would be the self-aware Christmas turkeys’ story who want to be eaten and pluck themselves. ![]() Some of the subject matter of these stories means this one is more suitable for adults but I never remember younger kids being too interested in Judge Dredd or 2000AD overall it was something for the older and cooler kids back in the day and of course banned at school. Judge Dredd being satire is something that is lost on a lot of people but it does come up in quite a few of these like the one with Placebo and the Ozzy Osbourne parody story. There are a lot of different writers and artists involved so if you do not like one of the stories you can easily move onto the next one and they are not really related apart from being part of the 2000AD publication. ![]() There is more than enough in this volume for it to be worth your while even for a casual reader of the series. A weighty tome for fans of Judge Dredd or even if you have not read anything featuring the character before and only seen the movie or movies and want to get more into it. ![]() |